Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 26, 2025, 1:33 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Canada's solution to school prayer: segregation.
#35
RE: Canada's solution to school prayer: segregation.
Quote:How is it inflamatory? I did not say they could not practice their beliefs, I just limited it from being part of the educational process. Oh wait, when I do it is isintolerant but when the atheist and secular [eople do it ist is for the public good. Sounds like a double standard to me.
Public schools are the centers of secular education. I believe that every child should get his religious education either at the temple of his religion, or within the family. This is where I got my religious education.
I was sent to a Qur'an course instead, learned to read arabic, fundamental prayers and prayed with my grandmother when I wanted to. Of course, we received minimal religious education in school, but how beneficial could religious education be if you are only taking two classes a week on moslem rules, worship, ethics and world religion? Really, most of the people who had less-religious families, and learned prayers in class soon forgot them.
Unless you plan to become a man of the cloth, religious education is unnecessary and moot.
You need to learn about your religion each and every day if you plan to introduce into schools, or it's just nothing more than a jest, a few free credits to pass your semester.
At least this is what it was for us.

And if you think of implementing religion into schools on such a grand scale, this will hamper secular education.
One must make a choice, or open schools that teach either theology, or secular knowledge.
Quote:You would be wrong. Just this morning I read another story about a female teacher having sex with a young student. That isn't okay by religious standards. Secularism fails its students, theirparents and society.
Yes, yes...But this is due to a lack of social morals. For example, did we Turks, ever need any religious law to punish such acts? Did we need religious laws to know that adultery was a crime against society itself?
The only place where our conversion to the mussulman religion has been helpful was in bringing us into a settled way of life and to give a religious overtone to our previous razzias from the pagan days which had little religious significance other than to gain loot and slaves to spread a religion and establish settled governments and build monuments in our(and God's) honour.
But even then, we have had secular laws. One example would be the laws of Mehmed the second, who outlawed the usual practices for fornication and adultery, and simply brought forth a fine for those who practiced adultery and fornication, and if both were unmarried, forced them to marry eachother in order to provide social stability, whereas laws from the pagan days forced the individuals to go into exile, and never return, on pain of death.
Quote:Yes it does or people are lead astray into lies, deceit and anarchy. Look at all the teachers caught for doing immoral acts, not just sex with students but lying, cheating, flasifying records, over-reactions by school officials and the list goes on.
Well, religion can be taught in schools, true, however, the extent must be carefully measured. You cannot teach religion as to get into the way of secular school curriculum, as you'd need to teach people the bible each and every day, provide assignments and examinations. You cannot force both secular and religious education into a single week, it's impossible for both school staff and kids to learn this.
As for teachers, I think that this is due to the low moral standards in your country. In our country, such a thing would never happen, not because we have extensive religious education in schools, but because we have strong social morals, that are above individual morals at all times.
[Image: trkdevletbayraklar.jpg]
Üze Tengri basmasar, asra Yir telinmeser, Türük bodun ilingin törüngin kim artatı udaçı erti?
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Canada's solution to school prayer: segregation. - by kılıç_mehmet - May 8, 2012 at 4:32 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Border Patrol Racially Profiling. Near Canada. BrianSoddingBoru4 3 937 February 19, 2019 at 9:08 pm
Last Post: Rev. Rye
  There Is A Simple Solution For This Minimalist 10 1134 July 22, 2018 at 5:33 pm
Last Post: Anomalocaris
  School Shootings Silver 50 6929 May 23, 2018 at 1:32 pm
Last Post: Gawdzilla Sama
  What would you change about the American public school system? Bahana 53 8639 April 17, 2018 at 4:02 pm
Last Post: Crossless2.0
  Florida school shooting: FBI mishandled tip on gunman's 'desire to kill' WinterHold 7 1601 February 18, 2018 at 3:25 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  My Biggest Criticism Of My Own Country (Canada) Amarok 11 5511 September 20, 2017 at 1:36 pm
Last Post: c172
  A minor solution to America's election process NuclearEnergy 19 5357 May 3, 2017 at 2:53 pm
Last Post: Pat Mustard
  Scotland could leave the UK, and join Canada instead, says author Isis 21 8789 April 8, 2017 at 12:33 pm
Last Post: brewer
  Health Insurance: Canada Wins Minimalist 12 3356 March 21, 2017 at 5:42 pm
Last Post: Amarok
  U.S refugees to Canada Amarok 3 1295 March 13, 2017 at 6:24 am
Last Post: abaris



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)